Airdate: September 16, 1995
Opening Line: "Money down the drain-y!"—Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
Variety Speak: While waiting to see Dr. Scratchansniff, Yakko and Dot musically teach Wakko about all the slang found inside Variety magazine.
Three Tenors and You're Out: Slappy and Skippy want to see the Dodgers game but instead come to an opera concert.
Bingo: Scratchansniff hosts a game of Bingo, but Wakko doesn't understand how to play.
Variety Speak includes examples of:
- Animation Bump: Like "I'm Mad", this short was initially going to be released as a theatrical short, which is why it is shown in letterbox.
- Group Hug: How the short ends with where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot embracing each other towards the end
◊. - Musical Episode
- Take That!: With this being a show-biz themed short, there are plenty of potshots taken at Disney, the Rocky films, the Burton-produced Batman (1989) films, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oliver Stone.
Three Tenors and You're Out contains examples of:
- The Cameo: The Warners, silhouetted, shake hands with the maestro in a parody of a scene from Fantasia.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed:
- The Three Tenors are named Pepperoni (for Pavorotti), Carumba (for Carreras) and Domino (for Domingo).
- Schwarzenegger (playing his character from Junior) and Clint Eastwood (as his character from In the Line of Fire) are seen in the audience during the National Anthem.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The cartoon is based on the 1994 Three Tenors concert at Dodger Stadium to coincide with the 1994 World Cup finals.
- Shout-Out:
- The climax parodies Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg, who directed the film, can be seen on the ship with Slappy.
- Skippy says, "They're here!" before the ship arrives, in a reference to Poltergeist.
- This Means War!: All Slappy and Skippy wanted to do was see a baseball game, so they torment the Three Tenors until they do.
Bingo contains examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: Scratchy keeps saying, "Oh, nein!", which Wakko mistakes for "O-9". "Oh, nein" is German for "Oh, no!"
- Here We Go Again!: Scratchy lets Wakko pick a prize from the grab bag just to get the game over with. It turns out to be free Bingo for a year.
- One-Letter Pun: Wakko keeps mistaking letter combinations for words, and words for letter combinations.Scratchansniff: Stop! Now you're cheating.
Wakko: G-10? Bingo! - Verbal Backspace:Scratchansniff: You do know how to play, don't you?
Wakko: Sure, sure! Well... I'll catch on as we go along. - Who's on First?: The whole premise of the short.
